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As with any other registration system, the carrier posts their number on the outside of their vehicles in the form "WMATC 126". WMATC should not be confused with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) which is the bus and train operator for the City of Washington and suburbs. WMATA is also exempt from regulation by WMATC.
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact; Long title: An Act to grant the consent of Congress for the States of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact to establish an organization empowered to provide transit facilities in the National Capital Region and for other purposes and to enact said amendment ...
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, [4] is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates the Metrobus service under the Metro name. [5]
Pylon by the entrance to the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter station Passengers boarding a train at the Bethesda station Crossvault of the L'Enfant Plaza station Union Station, the busiest station in the system The longest continuous escalator in the western hemisphere, at the Wheaton station [5] Vaulted ceiling at Farragut West Largo Town Center station, one of the newest stations ...
WMATA 2024 New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE XE40 #1046 arriving at Rhode Island Ave station. This is a roster of the bus fleet of Metrobus, the fixed-route bus service run by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington, D.C. The Metrobus fleet is the sixth-largest bus fleet in the United States. It provides more than 130 million ...
SmarTrip was the first contactless smart card for transit in the United States [23] when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18, 1999. [24] By 2004, 650,000 SmarTrip cards were in circulation. [25]
Metrobus is a bus service operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its fleet consists of 1,595 buses covering an area of 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. [2]
The service provides daily trips throughout the Transit Zone in the Washington Metropolitan region. The Transit Zone consists of the District of Columbia, the Maryland counties of Montgomery County and Prince George's County, the Virginia counties of Arlington County and Fairfax County, and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church.